toricBlowup (s, X, v)
Roughly speaking, the toricBlowup replaces a subspace of a given space with all the directions pointing out of that subspace. The metaphor is inflation of a balloon rather than an explosion. A toricBlowup is the universal way to turn a subvariety into a Cartier divisor.
The toricBlowup of a normal toric variety along a torus orbit closure is also a normal toric variety. The fan associated to the toricBlowup is star subdivision or stellar subdivision of the fan of the original toric variety. More precisely, we throw out the star of the cone corresponding to s and join a vector v lying the relative interior to the boundary of the star. When the vector v is not specified, the ray corresponding to the sum of all rays in the cone corresponding to s is used.
The simplest example is toricBlowup of the origin in the affine plane. Note that the new ray has the largest index.
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Here are a few different toricBlowups of a non-simplicial affine toric variety
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The third collection of examples illustrate some toricBlowups of a non-simplicial projective toric variety.
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The method assumes that the list v corresponds to a primitive vector. In other words, the greatest common divisor of its entries is one. The method also assumes that v lies in the relative interior of the cone corresponding to s. If either of these conditions fail, then the output will not necessarily be a well-defined normal toric variety.